Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire
This questionnaire can be useful for both physicians and patients. It consists of six questions, as follows:
- Do you feel pain or discomfort in your leg(s) on walking?
- Positive response → Yes
- If the response is No, don’t complete.
- Does the pain ever begin when you are standing or sitting?
- Positive response → No.
- Do you get this pain if you walk up or hurry?
- Positive response → Yes
- Do you get this pain when you walk at a usual speed on a level?
- The response depends on the severity of the condition.
- What happens if you stand still or sit?
- Positive response → pain disappear in 10 minutes or less
- Where do you feel the pain?
- Positive response → Typical claudication => in calves
Atypical claudication → in buttocks or thighs.
To say there is peripheral vascular disease, you should have positive responses to all questions as above. The accuracy of this questionnaire reaches 90% in people with peripheral vascular disease.
After diagnosis, If the doctor confirmed the peripheral vascular disease, assessed the severity of the condition, and evaluated the potential risk factor, he would put a plan to manage this condition and prevent further worsening.
⇒ Now, let’s discuss the treatment of peripheral vascular disease.
